Cohesity

Director, Commercial Sales

Cohesity$332K — $415K *
US-AnywhereRemote in Austin, TX
Enterprise Technology
8 - 10 years of experience
Job Overview by Ladders

Qualifications

  • 10+ years of experience leading large sales teams in competitive environments
  • History of negotiating large-scale deals with intricate terms
  • Demonstrated ability in recruiting and developing sales management teams
  • Experience collaborating with multifunctional teams across sales and marketing
  • BA/BS degree or higher in relevant field
  • Self-starter with high standards and minimal direction required
  • Willingness to travel more than 50% of the time

Responsibilities

  • Build and lead a team of sales managers in a whitespace territory
  • Develop and implement strategic territory plans to achieve sales goals
  • Recruit and prepare the direct sales management team for success
  • Maintain a balance between team leadership and customer engagement
  • Collaborate with various teams to identify and cultivate new business opportunities

Benefits

  • Comprehensive health and wellness benefits
  • Generous vacation and paid holidays policy
  • 401(k) retirement plan
  • Life and disability insurance coverage
  • Opportunities for bonuses, commissions, and equity grants
Full Job Description
We strongly prefer candidates who are currently located in or near the designated job location. Candidates outside the area should apply only if they are committed to relocating prior to their start date and have the legal right to work in the job location.

Are you driven, high-reaching, and thrive in a collaborative environment? If so, Cohesity is looking for you! We are seeking a District Manager, who will have the unique opportunity to build and be responsible for an experienced sales team in a whitespace patch. This role will be responsible for developing and implementing Cohesity's sophisticated territory strategy, ensuring goals, objectives, and quotas are met by the sales teams. We are looking for someone with outstanding leadership skills, to be pivotal in recruiting and leading the direct sales management team, who will, in turn, optimize the recruitment, hiring, development, and performance of the sales team.

HOW YOU'LL SPEND YOUR TIME HERE:
  • Build and handle an expert sales team
  • Craft Cohesity's territory strategy to ensure both short and long term goals, objectives and quotas for the sales managers and their teams
  • Recruit the direct sales management team and ensure, in turn, that these managers successfully recruit, hire, develop, and run a tiered sales team
  • Maintain good balance between leading a team and customer interfacing calls
  • Work closely with the extended sales team (including SE Manager, PSO Manager, Inside Sales Manager, Channel Manager, Recruiting, etc.) to generate new business opportunities


WE'D LOVE TO TALK TO YOU IF YOU HAVE MANY OF THE FOLLOWING:
  • 10 plus years experience of 6 or more direct sales manager reports in a fast paced, highly competitive, ever-changing sales environment
  • Minimum years of experience: Please review levelling guidelines s in leading team quota with validated achievement
  • Confirmed ability to lead a horizontal, extended resource team to support the direct sales team
  • Extensive experience directly and indirectly through a management team negotiating large 7 figure deals with very sophisticated terms, conditions, price pressures and considerations
  • Shown record working directly and indirectly through a management team with OEMs to build strategic and concerted sales campaigns together
  • History of direct and indirect coordination with an internal set of multifunctional teams such as Systems Engineers, Inside Reps, Field Marketing, Professional Services, and Channel Management to ensure target quotas as achieved and exceeded Core Proficiencies
  • Self-starter who takes initiative and works with limited direction
  • Highly trusted individual who maintains and expects high standards for self and team
  • BA/BS degree or higher
  • Ability to travel 50%+ of the time


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Disclosure Pursuant to Applicable State Equal Pay Transparency Laws - This position has a starting pay range as listed below. Actual salary depends upon many factors, including a candidate's skills, qualifications and experience, location, and salary expectations, and therefore a starting salary at the low end, high end, or even above the stated range may be offered. This position may also be eligible for bonus compensation, commission (if in a sales function), and/or equity grants. Additionally, full-time employees are eligible to participate in our comprehensive benefits framework, including health and wellness benefits, vacation, paid holidays and refresh days, 401(k) retirement plan, life and disability insurance coverages, and other benefits the Company may offer from time to time.

Pay Range :

$332,120.00-$415,150.00

The compensation noted above is based on an annualized hourly rate assuming normal full-time employment.

Current pay transparency shows the OTE (On-Target Earnings) for commission-based roles.

About Cohesity

Cohesity is a data management company that provides a web-scale platform for consolidating secondary storage silos onto a single, easy-to-manage solution. The company's products include Cohesity DataProtect, Cohesity DataPlatform, Cohesity Helios, and Cohesity SmartFiles. Cohesity was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
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Size
1,600 employees
Industry
Founded
2013

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